Tag Archives: World Cinema

Review in Brief: Impetigore (2019/20)

Posted on November 24, 2020 by Sam Sewell-Peterson

Even in a year chock-full of examples of distinctively-voiced horror, the Indonesian offering IMPETIGORE stands out. It’s self-aware without being glib (someone asks “who kills students?” the answer every horror fan knows, is any antagonist in a horror film), it’s … Continue reading →

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Review in Brief: A White, White Day (2019)

Posted on November 21, 2020 by Sam Sewell-Peterson

A WHITE, WHITE DAY is a film, like its protagonist (a craggy, mesmerising Ingvar Sigurdsson), utterly consumed by grief. The imposing Icelandic landscape blurs the line between life and death, beauty and bleakness, memory and reality. Little moments of quiet … Continue reading →

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Review in Brief: Ainu Mosir

Posted on November 21, 2020 by Sam Sewell-Peterson

The Ainu are the aboriginal people of Hokkaidō, Japan’s large northern island. Following centuries of oppression, discrimination, cultural invalidation, the Ainu were officially recognised as indigenous people of Japan in 2008. AINU MOSIR (after the Ainu name for Hokkaidō) tells … Continue reading →

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Memories of Murder (2003) Review

Posted on September 14, 2020 by Sam Sewell-Peterson

https://www.thefilmagazine.com/memories-of-murder-bongjoonho-movie-review/ SSP

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The Perfect Candidate (2019/20)

Posted on August 6, 2020 by Sam Sewell-Peterson

https://www.thefilmagazine.com/perfect-candidate-haiffaalmansour-movie-review/ SSP

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Review: Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019)

Posted on April 10, 2020 by Sam Sewell-Peterson

Well this was absolutely sensational. It was also the final film I saw in the cinema before Coronavirus closed them (cheery thought). PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE is sensual, appropriately painterly and with a huge heart. Love stories are … Continue reading →

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The Truth (2019) Review

Posted on April 7, 2020 by Sam Sewell-Peterson

https://www.thefilmagazine.com/truth-koreeda-movie-review/ SSP

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Windows into Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite

Posted on April 4, 2020 by Sam Sewell-Peterson

https://www.thefilmagazine.com/windows-into-bongjoonho-parasite/ SSP

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Review: Parasite (2019)

Posted on January 29, 2020 by Sam Sewell-Peterson

I fell in love with the genre-hopping, tonally-tromboning work of South Korean firebrand Bong Joon-ho at university and ended up writing my dissertation on how his films represent fractured families and Korean culture. I’ve been waiting for PARASITE for what … Continue reading →

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Review in Brief: Atlantics (2019)

Posted on January 28, 2020 by Sam Sewell-Peterson

I didn’t know what to expect from ATLANTICS. You’re drawn in with a social realist take but what stays with you is the magical realism that comes into this Senegalese story’s second half. Construction worker Souleiman (Traore) protests against unpaid … Continue reading →

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